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A95609	A Scripture-map of the wildernesse of sin, and vvay to Canaan. Or The sinners way to the saints rest. Wherein the close bewildring sleights of sin, wiles of the Devill, and windings of the heart, as also the various bewildrings of lost sinners, yea, even of saints, before, in, and after conversion; the necessity of leaning upon Christ alone for salvation, with directions therein: as also, the evident and eminent danger of false guides, false wayes, false leaning-stocks, are plainly, and practically discovered. Being the summe of LXIV lecture sermons preached at Sudbury in Suffolk, on Cantic. 8.5. / By Faithful Teate, M.A. minister of the Gospel.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1655 (1655)	Wing T615; Thomason E839_1; ESTC R203761	372,945	489

speake Christs Priestly Office and that 's the first I am the way for Christ being Priest is as truly his peoples way unto the Father as being Prophet he doth bring truth or being Prince life from God unto them How Christ as Priest comes to be the souls way You 'l aske how Christ as Priest comes to be the souls way I le tell you Christ as Priest hath made a Sacrifice of himselfe before the Lord which was the onely means to make a way out of the Wildernesse I meane to bring sinners unto God So that I may be bold to say unto you here is a way out of the Wildernesse paved with the very flesh and cemented with the very blood of Jesus Christ And therefore whatever soule refuseth to walke in this way shall be found guilty of treading under foot the Son of God and of counting the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing Heb. 10.29 We must by faith walke in him else by neglect we trample on him Oh! how great a difference will there be betwixt those that walke in him and those that trample upon him in the end That Jesus Christ as Priest hath by his owne flesh and blood made his way to the Father in our behalfe see Heb. 8.12 By his own blood he entred into the holy place having obtained eternall redemption for us That Christ as Priest hath by his own flesh and blood made a way for us unto the Lord see Heb. 10.19 20. Having therefore boldnesse Brethren to enter into the holiest through his blood by a new and living way consecrated to us through the vail that is to say his flesh Here 's a way a new and living way and consecrated that is by Christ the Priest made as I said of his flesh and blood who dyed that wee might have life who came into the Wilderness that we might come out of it This is the way walke in it 5ly What kind of way Christ is Lastly for your encouragement I shall endeavour to recommend this way unto you which I have thus laid before you yea the Lord himselfe hath chalked out unto you Tell me what way poor soule wouldst thou chuse to walke in A right way say all the high-way say some a broad way say others a pleasant way say others a clean way say others a well provision'd way say others a profitable way say others a secure way say others the way home say others Is all this enough to commend a way unto you if it be not call for more You shall find all these in this way 1. Every one that journey'th is solicitous or should be to finde and so to keep the Right Way Oh! that my waies were directed saith David Psal 119.5 Now Jesus Christ is the onely right way for bewildred and lost souls to walke in for what is true of the Type viz. Israels way from the old Wildernesse is certainly most true and must needs be so of Christ the Antitype 107.7 He led them forth by a right way And the truth is Jesus Christ is so the right way that so nothing of Whoredome Swearing Sabbath-breaking Drunkenness Hypocrisie c. I say Hearing Reading Praying Almsgiving are all but wrong wayes wildernesse wayes without Christ and this is evident in the ninety nine persons just according to the righteousnesse of Scribes and Pharisees which you know was of that kind left in the wilderness Luk. 15.4 7. But what shall I then doe may the Caviller say I wonder what these Ministers would have us doe sometimes they bid and otherwile they forbid I had thought these had beene right waies indeed and if I might continue in the Wildernesse for all these why should I walk in them any more Say not so we forbid not these waies but in these we presse to make towards this way Travellers are wont when they are at a muse to take the waies that are most hopefull and probable and in them as soon as may be to enquire the way goe thou and doe likewise Jer. 6.16 Stand ye in the waies that is the wayes of the Ordinances and see and ask for the old paths that is to say of holy duties that holy men of old have walked in and ask where is the good way that way is Christ and you shall find rest to your souls It seems there is in all those Wayes one peculiar way to be sought out and walked in and that way is Christ for we have just now proved that Christ is the onely way to that soul-rest whereof the way to Canaan was but a type So that this truth is not only Gospell but according to the Law and the Prophets Wherefore never tell me of thy prayers unlesse Christ be in thy prayers or of thine Alms unlesse Christ be in them they are the waies but Christ it the way and in them you must seek him Thus did the spouse she had lost her Beloved and seeks him in the Ordinances which the Spirit thus expresseth Cant. 3.1 In the broad waies she sought him whom her soul loved that it as Divines understand it in the Ordinances ver 2. Take heed of resting satisfied in any duty but onely then and so far forth as you find Christ in that duty Thy comforts will be like the Dove fluttering upon the waters if they flutter upon thy duties thou never wilt find rest unto thy soul untill thou findest Christ and walkest in him Christ is the onely right way 2d Christ is the High-way Secondly Christ is the high way out of this Wildernesse You see Ghrist is the performance of that promise to the Wildernesse Isa 55.8 an high way shall be there an high way oh here 's encouragement An high way is free to all the poor may go on foot in it as well as Nobles ride in Chariots The poor may receive the Gospell and walk in Christ for he is the high way An high way none may interrupt in it If men walk in private paths they are trespassers and may be arrested and verily whilst the soul is void of Christ it commits daily trespasses what ever it doth even when it s eats its daily bread I need not tell you men are trespassers who walke in the waies mentioned before in the way of the wicked the way of lying the way of Baalam the way of the Adulterous c. the purblind Conscience may spy that but know friends that even your waies of duty prayer hearing c. are trespasses and you walk as it 's said aggravating the misery of those times Judg. 5.6 through by-paths whilst you go Christlese in them Now when a man walks in a by path another comes interrupts him what hast thou to do to walk here in this ground I need not tel you that when one whore 's swears c. that God Law and Conscience will interrupt him what dost thou whither goest thou but this I 'le say when he reads and praies and hears c.

Ephraim were but an empty vine so Cant. 6.11 I went down that 's Christ into the garden of nuts when Christ takes a nut-tree out of the forest and transplants it in his garden makes a sinner a convert then he observes the fruit it brings forth to see the fruit of the valley that is of the poor penitent lowly humble heart and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomgranates budded that is whether this and that and the other grace faith and humility and holiness c. flourished and brought forth unto him Therefore as Christ in the fore-quoted place calls the fruit of his garden the Spouses so the Spouse calls the fruit of her garden Christs blow upon my garden and let him eat his pleasant fruits Cant. 4.16 If thou would have evidence that Christ did in earth and doth in heaven bring forth fruit unto thee labor to finde that thine heart thy lips thy life do all of them bring forth fruit unto Christ 2. Labor to finde Christ unto thy soul a river of waters of life Secondly labor to finde Christ a river of waters of life unto thy soul since thou hast been hitherto moistureless like a wilderness when Israel was in the dismal wilderness where there was no water Psalm 78.15 16. the Lord clave the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths he brought streams also out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers But what 's this to me a sinner may the soul say Why the Apostle tells thee this rock was Christ these waters flowing out the rock were streams from Christ 1 Cor. 10.4 They drank of that spiritual rock that followed th●● and that rock was Christ Christ is that river the streams whereof make glad the poor bewildred soul There are three sorts of streams which O that you could finde flowing from the Lord Christ 1. 1. Stream of blood Labor to finde the red stream of Christs blood Christs satisfaction and justification and reconciliation purchased thereby this is there as in many other Scriptures called Christs wine I have drunk my wine Hast thou by faith seen this rock smitten by the Lords rod and this red stream issuing out Hast thou seen Christs side lanced and the blood streaming forth for thy soul Hast thou seen this blood of the new Covenant poured forth for thee Oh! how would this stream make thy soul glad Secondly 2. Stream of milk Labor to finde the crystal stream of Christs Spirit by the other the soul is counted righteous by this it is made righteous I know the sincere heart desires as truly this as the other the other is the fountain open for sin that is the guilt the curse the condemnation this is a fountain open for uncleanness that is the defilement and pollution and both is for the house of David to wash in this is there as in other places called Christs milk and to shew that Sanctification and Justification go hand in hand one with another therefore saith Christ I drunk my wine with my milk though the wine be the first yet is it not without milky streams but they go along with it I cannot but imagine but that in the order of nature Christ Justifies before he Sanctifieth and yet I believe he never justifies but therewith he sanctifies as here wine first yet wine with milk even both together so we have Isa 55.1 the same order and the same conjunction Buy wine and milk without money and without price that is my merits and my spirit shall be both yours if you close with me though you deserve neither But thirdly Labor to finde yet other streams 3 Stream of honey even honey streams from Christ in the Ordinances this is called as often by David before so Cant. 5.1 Christs honey-comb and his honey Hast thou then found communion with Christ in prayer hearing reading or the like sweet as honey sw●eter also then the honey-comb Canst thou say as the spouse of Christ Cant. 4.13 His lips are like lilies even like lilies dropping sweet smelling myrrhe Have those sweet streams from Christs mouth flown down thus upon thy soul surely such floods cannot choose but make thee joyful in the house of prayer 2. To finde thy soul a watered garden to Christ Now secondly Labor to finde thy soul a watered garden unto Christ The soul was in the wilderness Cant. 4.8 and she becomes a garden ver 12. and in this garden there are both springs and fountains though both shut up and sealed that 's for Christs use they are reserved who alone is found worthy to open the seals 1. The fountain of thine h●ad First Then let the fountains of thine head be opened unto Christ the streams of thy lips of thine eyes thy words thy tears the working of thy brains let them all stream forth towards the Lord Christ say as the prophet O that mine head were fountains and mine eyes rivers of tears Jer. 9.1 let it be with thee as with David Rivers of tears run down mine eyes because men keep not thy law Psalm 119.136 O that all our heads and eyes were as rivers streaming towards Christ and Christ onely O that our brains might work more after and more for Christ We were as a moistureless wilderness before let us even in this sense become a watered garden now Isa 58.11 2. Of thine heart Secondly Let the fountains of thine heart be opened unto Christ If God have shed his love abroad in thine heart shed now thy love abroad into Gods heart We were as a wilderness we could scarce pour out words before God before let us now Psalm 62.8 pour out our hearts before God let all our affections desire fear love joy c. stream forth towards God Thus David poured out his soul within him Psalm 42.4 3. Of thy life 3 Let the fountains of thy life stream forth towards Christ as the fountain both of Christs life and death to boot did flow out unto thee whether you eat or drink or whatever you do let all the streams of your lives run into the channel of his glory According to this threefold counsel you have mention of a threefold breaking out of waters in the spouse Cant. 4.15 A founta●n of gardens there 's one sort a spring of living waters there 's another sort and streams from Lebanon there 's a third sort that is if I mistake not one in the head another in the heart a third in the conversation The fountain of the head waters the garden of the affections the spring of the heart enliveneth the fountains of the head knowledge would otherwise be a dead water and now from both together to wit head and heart there are streams from Lebanon that is Knowledge and Grace flow forth as streams into the conversation You may therefore observe comfortably that as Christ had spoken high before of the streams that flow from himself

hath done for God c. Lu. 18.12 And yet went away unstified v. 14. Think of those lost souls that shall come to Christ in the last day telling what they have done for him how they have preached in his Name and cast out Devils for him c. And yet Christ tells them he doth not know them Think of Noahs Workmen that holpe to build the Ark yet were not saved by the Ark. But you wil then say What shall we do with our doings truly I must say as to the business of justification and making your peace with God say when you have done all as Lu. 17.10 That you are but unprofitable servants 3ly But when the soul comes to be yet farther enlightned and directed 3d. Darkness We must be humbled to such a degree so as to think indeed that what it can give or what it can do are nothing indeed neither are they that which as to peace-making God requires yet is there bewildring darkness upon the Spirit when the soul comes to be of Davids mind and to speake his language Psal 51.16 Thou desirest not sacrifice else would I give it thou delightest not in burnt-Offerings then in comes the 17 v. The sacrifices of God are a broken heart and here the poor creature is at a losse and in the dark still crying out Oh! what shall I do for such a Sacrifice Now goeth he to hammer his own spirit and to see if he can break his own heart and yet it doth not please him Poore ones place this brokenness of heart in such a measure of being humbled yea David might well say indeed that he he had a Broken heart so a sacrifice which God would not despise for he watered his Couch with his tears if I could do so saith the soul I durst then think that I had a Sacrifice Yea but prophane Esau had multitude of brinish teares and yet he had no Sacrifice Heb. 12.17 Thou thinkst the Sacrifice of broken-heartednesse consists in such degrees of being humbled and till thou come to such a measure as such an one had thou darest not believe in Jesus Christ and so thou still walkest in darknesse Observe what the Psalmist sayes The sacrifices of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not the Sacrifice but the Sacrifices of God are a broken heart And here it seems that a Broken heart if it go alone and carry not along with it another Sacrifice viz. Christ can never be acceptable unto God For it is not onely expresly manifest that David looks beyond the Sacrifices of the Law by what he saith in the precedent verse but it is to me evident not onely from the clearnesse and Evangelicalness of this Psalms whole style but particularly from that particular Petition v. 7. Purge me with Hysop and I shall be clean which Hysop was of a two-fold use in the Ceremoniall Law 1. For the sprinkling of the blood of the cleane Bird a type of Christ by which sprinkling the Leper was to be cleansed Lev. 14.6 7. And 2ly For the sprinkling of the water of Separation or purification Numb 19.9 18. called therefore Holy water Chap. 5.17 because the unclcan were therewith purified It is I say to me evident that by faith David had respect to that Blood and Water that at once issued out of the side of Jesus Christ Jo. 19.34 At that time when he offered up his body once for all Heb. 10.9 That one Sacrifice offered for sins for ever v. 12. Which Blood and Water is expresly called Zach. 13.1 and I think not impertinently to this matter a fountaine opened for sin viz. that of blood and for uncleanness viz. that of water to the house of David 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for sinne and for separation that is to say separation for uncleanness expresly respecting that Water of separation which was a type of sanctification as the fountaine for sin that blood for Justification both are for the house of David Oh happy re●urne of the foresaid holy prayer But now where is the bleeding Bird and the running Water and the Hysop wherewith this sprinkling is to be made read but the preceding verses ch 12. ●0 I will poure upon the house of David again the spirit of grace and supplications that is the same thing that David in the foresaid Psalme calls the broken spirit the Sacrifices of God but how comes it to be so They shall look on me whom they have pierced and mourn c. there are the Sacrifices a bleeding Spirit looking to a bleeding Christ a pierced soul taking hold by faith upon a pierced Christ a broken heart acting faith for the same thing that in our Text is called Leaning is in that Text called Looking upon a broken Christ Oh these are Gods Sacrifices such as he will not such as he cannot despise such a soul hath the blood of pierced Christ for the doing away of the Leprosie and plague of sin and the water of a pierced Christ for the purging of pollutions of sin away from it and it want not the Hysop of bitternesse if you look to the end of the verse that bitter but purgative grace of godly sorrow to repentance never to be repented of whereby that Blood Water are sprinkled upon it unto Righteousne●s Holiness whilst it by faith continueth looking on him that was pierced or in the language of our Text leaning upon the Beloved But and if we shall think that the Psalmists expression is onely an Hebraism the Sacrifices that is to say the best or chief Sacrifice of God is a broken heart we must yet understand it of an heart Evangelically broken and so the matter of necessity returns to the same thing Know ye therefore this day Note That all the businesse and use of a broken heart as to Pacification the Atonement of the sinner unto God though as to us there may be other uses of it such as to make us to walk humbly with good Hezekiah all our dayes Isa 38.15 I say all the use of the broken heart as to pacification with God is meerly to make the penitent sinner willing to take hold on a broken Christ and when these two go together there are the Sacrifices of God Thou art in the darke if thou thinke that thy broken-heartedness makes peace with God for thee any more then any Gift or Work of thine by or of it self but broken-heartedness makes thee see what need thou hast of makes thee desirous accordingly to take hold upon Gods strength that He may make peace with God for thee Thine humblings be they as great as Esaus are no better Sacrifices to God then his teares unlesse thy broken heart hold up a broken Christ for a sin-offering for a propitiation unto God Query If you say then how shall I know whether my heart be sufficiently broken Solu I answer If thine heart whether it be harrowed or shattered to pieces more

not thinke onely of standing at his right hand and of receiving honour by him but also of doing homage and giving of worship to him If you must come up to Sarahs example in calling and and counting him your Lord. Thus David that Kingly Prophet takes him for his King and his Prophet whom he takes for his Saviour Psal 25.5 Lead me in thy truth there 's the first and teach me there 's the second for thou art the God of my salvation there 's the third So then since true faith doth ever take hold upon an whole Christ who is King Priest and Prophet whether it be granted that this Faith doth justifie as it receives Christ under the precise Nosion of Ruler and Teacher as well as of Priest which some affirme or onely of Priest and Surety as others doe judge that is solely as presenting his righteousnesse to God for us and as putting that his righteousnesse upon us and not as working that righteousness in us that is most usually called Holiness which seems chiefly as to respect the Princely and Prophetical office of Christ so to relate to that purifying or sanctifying act of faith spoken of Act. 15.9 rather then that justifying act of faith spoken of Rom. 5.1 Yet must I assert that no faith doth justifie but that which takes Christ for King and Law-giver as well as Saviour Isai 33.22 Faith justifies si non quâ totum saltem quae totum recipit respicit Christum Take heed soules of distinguishing here between LORD and JESUS as Judge Cook used to do by laying off of his Gown between Judge and Cook If Christs Coat be seamless surely Christ himselfe is divisionless And it is farre safer for me and you to be careful in uniting practically what God hath certainly joyned together then to be over-curious in distinguing notionally where if we divide practically we are undone everlastingly Yea are there not some Pilats that aske what is truth that even question Justification it selfe because some raise so various so dubious Questions about it and whilst these contend so much about the Cement they call into question the very Foundation and say the Builders shall agree before we build with them Yea and a receiving of him upon his owne termes Lastly I say a receiving of Christ upon his own terms Perhaps some guests would come to the Marriage when their Oxen are proved and their Farms managed c. and if they might first go and bury their Father Mat. 8.21 And thus would we be indenting with and thrusting our own terms upon the Lord Chrst but if we marry him we must marry on his own terms with him and what those are we shall have occasion to speak in the Hinderances and therefore thither we refer thee for the present Now therefore that soule that thus Assents and Consents unto Jesus Christ both in Vnderstanding and Will both in the knowledge and love of the truth the soul that thus Conceives and Receives of such a soule may we say in the language of Rev. 19.7 The marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made her self ready This is the soule that may and ought to lean the soule that may and must apply How to improve this interest this soule hath an interest And now let me call for the improvement This is the soule that should be much in meditating 2. By often meditating of this strength rest with Christ what strength and rest her Head and Husband hath received or her Psa 45.1 My heart is enditing a good matter what was that Why Things appertaining to the King and what are those a Throne and a Scepter vers 6. that is Rest and Strength and for whom Why For the Queen at his right hand vers 9. Now sirs doe we believe this that our soules are marryed to the King of glory Oh then O then why is it that we have such base and sordid familiarity and fellowship with this World surely the reason why there is so much Earth in our lives nay may I say so much Hell in our lives is because there is so little heaven in our thoughts Phil. 3.20 whereas our Conversation should be in Heaven whence we look for a Saviour 2ly 2. By often speaking of it to others This is the soule that should be much in relating what a gainer she hath beene by making Christ her beloved What Zeresh what Wife amongst you could hold your peace if your Husband should be promoted to be second man in the Land Let thy soul make her boast in the Lord To Christ himself and speak thou the things that thou hast meditated concerning the King Psal 45.1 Yea speak much of it unto Jesus Christ and say I am thy Spouse O Lord I am thy Spouse and thou hast received gifts for me therefore give strength give refreshings to me the language of Psal 68.18 speaking to Christ in the second person will warrant such pleas at the Throne of grace 3ly 3ly By enlarging affections towards Christ hereupon This is the soule that should improve her interest in Christ by enlarging her affections towards Christ Hast thou an interest in Christ for thy stay and strength say as David Psal 18.1 I will loue thee O Lord O my strength And indeed the stronger the love is the stronger the leaning will be Lastly 4ly By living the life of faith This is the soul that whose life should be made up of faith and of obedience Of Faith For saith David My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed and upon what is is fixed Why trusting in the Lord Psal 112.7 And obedience in the sence hereof Of Obedience Be the work never so crosse to flesh and blood never so great and difficult though fighting with Beasts though wrestling with Devils because she is strong in her Lord and in the power of his might Ephes 6.10 12. Never so tedious and tyresome though reaping in his Harvest even all the heat and under the burthen of the day because say the Apostles such a soule shall have rest with us yea even with Christ for when his Spouse hath wrought with him all the day of her life she shall lie down with him in the night of her death and rest from all her labours because she is interested in the Lord for so saith the Spirit Reu. 14.13 Thus the Church of Philadelphia when she had but a little strength improves it unto faith and obedience she kept Christs word there 's obedience she denyed not his name there 's faith therefore Christ will keep her from the hour of temptation and give her Victory over Satan and his Synagogue Rev. 3.8 9 10. And thus have I done with the Object viz. Christ prepared and the spring of the Act viz. An Interest or Christ appropriated I come to 3d. Consid What this leaning act in the notion of it doth import More remotely The third thing propounded in